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  • Maybe a better Threadiverse Major Defederations Graph?

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  • why include an instance that doesn’t?

    Because it lets you see how common or uncommon defederations are relative to the total set of all instances (or at least, all minus the long tail of very-low-user-count ones). And although it would make the graph larger, it would also make it sparse and IMO that would also be easier to read.

    It could also give a misleading impression that all instances defederate or are defederated by somebody, making people think it's more common than it actually is. (Or maybe not doing that, if you include allish instances and it still ends up being not very sparse.)

  • BLM Protester Transferred Thousands of Miles Away After They Organized Against Their Solitary Confinement

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  • Ah yes, "in retaliation for their activism" in accordance with that famous exception to the First Amendment eliminating your free speech rights when you're in prison.

  • Well, I tried.

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  • Get an old bike that's in good mechanical condition but looks shitty.

    Alternatively, figure out how to take the bike with you on the bus. My transit system's buses have bike racks on the front, but if yours doesn't, get a folding bike (e.g. a Brompton).

  • James Carville vows to abandon Democratic Party if far-left Hasan Piker becomes leading voice

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  • I still don’t understand why he gets so much air time.

    Usually in cases like that, it's because the person is saying what the oligarchs want to be true.

  • What does "Posts older than 365 days will be removed." mean exactly?

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  • They can decide if they want to pay for it, but they can't decide whether other people think it has value or not.

  • What does "Posts older than 365 days will be removed." mean exactly?

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  • In some communities piefed.social only keeps posts for very short periods, like 28 days, because it’s the kind of content people look at once and has no lasting value beyond that.

    IMO that's not for admins or mods to decide. That's for users and (eventually) historians et al. to decide, and it's only knowable in retrospect, if ever.

    Hell, most of archaeology is digging through literal trash.

  • BMW is putting Spider-Man ads on your dashboard, after promising it never would

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  • Or a felony violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act!

  • Pritzker signs new laws requiring businesses to accept cash, pay employees for jury duty

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  • No one should suffer financially for complying with forced civic duty.

    On the other hand, they shouldn't pay people unequally for equal work, either. Why should some high-powered professional get $100/hour for jury duty when the juror next to them is getting minimum wage?

    You could just say "well just pay everyone the highest possible wage, then" but even if we decided that's a reasonable use of taxpayer funds, the problem is that it's hard to know what the right number even is when it changes at the unilateral whim of the highest-paid worker's employer.

  • Lesbian Mud Wrestling Breaks Out at Lollapalooza 2026

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  • Your renaissance festival has camping? The one in my area is more like a theme park than a LARP.

  • Walmart self-checkout mistake destroys Olympic athlete's career

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  • I'm sure resigning (under pressure, I assume) seemed like a good idea at the time, but I wonder if that makes it harder for her to sue to get her job back.

  • Sen. Mark Kelly says Trump administration is "flailing" in Iran and "has to try to figure out a way out of this"

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  • No matter what Trump does, it won't put the strait back in the status (in terms of freedom of navigation) it was in before Trump attacked. Iran fully controls it now and can impose whatever restrictions it wants, and there is nothing the US can do about it.

    To be clear, packing up and going home is absolutely the correct thing to do, regardless. But even that is not "a way out" of the consequences because there is no "way out" of the consequences. Trump's damage is permanent and unfixable.

  • What's a fun piece of free software I should learn to use this week?

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  • Or get a keyboard (or digital piano), but hook it up to your computer via MIDI and then compose music with it.

    It's a lot nicer using a real keyboard than trying to input notes with a mouse.

  • MAGA Exiles Marjorie Taylor Greene and Tucker Carlson Declare War on Trump: ‘He Betrayed Us All’

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  • Not sure if you misspelled "shysters" or if it was clever wordplay with "Scheiße".

  • Capital One says it closed Trump Organization's accounts after anti-money laundering probe

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  • It has always been a “money laundering” business.

    That's also how he "bankrupted a casino," BTW. The people who attributed that to simple incompetence fell for it.

  • Democrats see a chance to flip a US House seat as abuse claims mount against Ohio Rep. Max Miller

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  • Tasting History guy be like:

  • Welp

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  • Do you understand what being a professional (in the formal sense) actually is? It means your first responsibility is to the public, not your employer, and you are legally responsible for the work that you do. That goes for doctors, lawyers, and yes, engineers.

    If you as a civil engineer design an unsafe structure and it kills people, you can go to prison. If your employer demands you approve an unsafe design, the fact that you have to stamp the plans that get filed with the government gives you the power to resist. That's what being licensed means.

    If people making software don't have that level of accountability -- again, to the public, not to their megalomaniacal tech bro boss -- then they ain't engineers.

    It only varies by jurisdiction in the sense that some jurisdictions care about protecting the public and some apparently don't.

  • Welp

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  • The other key requirements I hope your licensing has are continuing education requirements and, most importantly, the notion of being a professional and having accountability to the public, not just your employer. Just taking one college class where you learn about Therac-25 isn't enough; a professional software engineer also needs to have the power to refuse unethical demands by their employer (e.g. to build dark patterns or otherwise enshittify the software) and have that judgement be backed up by the state.

  • Welp

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  • Assuming the provincial or national government requires you to have such a license or be working under supervision of someone who does in order to be employed in the practice of making software, then yes.

  • Anthropomorphism - CatTrigger

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  • Just upload it straight into the post.